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Search engines are so 2010. You just announce "hey genie!" and ask for what you want.

The grapes that grow in my back yard are Concords, and that shouldn't be surprising because Concord is a couple of towns over.

They taste just like Welch's.

To be clear, Truthear Gates cost almost $23 with the microphone option when they are not on sale... but yes.

Trademark is the mechanism of enforcement for this usage, just as copyright is the mechanism of enforcement for the GPL.

You can come up with other mechanisms that would work, but this is the one that we have in existence now.

is-ought distinction, but specifically:

The heksher marks and logos offered by kosher-certification organizations are protected by trademark; using the trademark under license specifically assures the customer that the organization's standards have been followed precisely, and using the trademark without license defeats the purpose.

Similarly, the American Halal Foundation, the USDA Organic seal, the UL logo and many other programs use the mechanism of trademark to guarantee that the product or service meets their standards.

In this case, it was genocide.

Heliboard is good, customizable, and actually open source - GPL3.

Since about 12 or so, it's been a series of cosmetic changes, bugfixes, and "AI" features.

Finally a direct competitor to RT (RequestTracker).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_Tracker

You can't respect someone who doesn't respect their self. It's a mistake to attribute personality features to countries, but not to their leaders.

Similarly, people who don't have self-respect don't respect others.

Comparable to https://store.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-um790-pro-m...

but much larger, heavier and with a specific keyboard.

No. The ideal infotainment "system" should be a volume knob, the minimum interface to get a secure connection, and a good modular tilt-and-swivel holder for a phone with obvious cable routing for a power cable and optional wireless charging.

Vehicles should be designed to last ten years so that the resale market can support the ridiculous prices for new. The infotainment system is the only part that is subject to external technological compatibility issues over that timespan.

It's the renounification that really bugs people.

$1 trillion more efficient in allocation of resources, freeing up money for consumer spending on everything.

The specifics are certainly cultural and locally relative, but Marx nailed it when he talked about ownership of the means of production, rather than being part of the production of goods and services.

The reason that the ultrawealthy behave like toddlers is that toddlers are, relatively speaking, ultrawealthy: all their needs are met without any effort on their part, and so many of their desires are fulfilled simply by expressing those desires out loud that any impediment or refusal is obviously enemy action.

In the USA, there are more than 52 jurisdictions not including towns and cities and counties, but most (not all) states think of ebikes as being slightly restricted bicycles rather than motorcycles, as long as:

- they have functional pedals (otherwise it's a motorcycle of some kind)

- they require pedal assist at all times and have some kind of power or speed limitation (anyone can use this, or at least it is least restricted)

- they have pedal assist available and have a different, higher power or speed limitation (usually reserved for 16+ or something similar)

- they have a power or speed limitation that makes them suitable for adults only but doesn't require a driver's license or inspection

There are efforts to regularize these, and also efforts to make things more chaotic. For example, New Jersey decided that all ebikes require a new ebike license and vehicle registration. Across the river in New York, no ebikes require a license or registration, and may be operated on any street which has a 30mph speed limit or less... but cities are allowed to make their own rules.

California's laws are mostly regarded by bicyclists as being sensible, at least in every discussion I've seen that didn't feature a twelve year old trying to convince his parents to buy him a 70mph electric motorcycle. See https://thecyclistchoice.com/resources/california-ebike-laws...

People want something to wash down the salty protein and fat. They've always had the choice of water, several sodas, and usually bad ice tea, bad lemonade and a diet soda or two.

In-N-Out is, IIRC, completely privately owned by the founder's family. Every location is directly controlled. Their customers are the people buying burgers.

McDonalds, of course, is 5% corp-owned flagships and 95% franchise "opportunities". They don't have customers, they have tenant farmers who work the land leased to them.

teetotaler(n.)

also teetotaller, "one who formally pledges to entire abstinence from intoxicating drink," 1834, agent noun from teetotal (q.v.). Related: Teetotaleress (1834); teetotalist (1840).

Invented by the "health conscious" and used as a term of self-identification. As far as I know, nobody thinks of it as anything other than a convenient synonym for "doesn't want to drink alcohol, at all".

It conveniently avoids motivation, too. Several religions forbid alcohol, it's not a good idea for alcoholics, and of course there are people who just think it's a bad idea for any other reason. "I'm a teetotaller" avoids getting into personal details.

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

And if the jurisdictions don't have a treaty?

There ought to be an XKCD for this, but instead it's from the FAQ.

In short: somebody thought it was interesting enough to submit, and enough other people voted for it that it got to your attention.

That's it.

If it ends up with 2000 points and sits on the new page for 3 days, I'll be quite surprised, but strange subjects do that.

Counter-evidence: the Google Play Store, which is a wretched hive of scum and villainy.

And also malware.

He's singing the praises of CostCo, which made him whole.

Any dishwasher could have these problems; any warehouse could. How the seller handles the situation is key to whether you use them again.

CostCo has built a huge reputation for being trustworthy as a retailer. If they get purchased by private equity, I will stop renewing my membership, and think about how close the country is to decorating lampposts.

Because I don't own any that I want to use.

I always have a phone, a laptop, a tablet or a desktop to hand. The tablet is a great device for reading comics as well as books. The phone is a terrible device for reasing comics, but fine for books.

I use KOReader on everything except e-ink devices.

Linux desktop. MacOS laptop. Android tablets. Android phones.

Where-ever I am, I can pick up a device and continue reading from where I left off. I have the same config everywhere (it would be nice to be able to distribute that) for gestures and taps. I use the same font everywhere (TeX Gyre Pagella, which is a Palatino clone.)

Customization begets comfort.

In system after system, people enthusiastically swarm to something which is easy to use. Then, after enshittification, they hang around too long because it's so hard to extract and send the meaningful data and metadata elsewhere.

If you write all your stuff in a location you control, and syndicate that out to the popular platform of the day, you can minimize your loss.

An astoundingly large percentage of my personal technical policies are guided by the idea that I want to minimize my losses after the next sudden yet inevitable betrayal.

The ACM sent around a nice query to members which made it clear that they were going to do it even if 100% of the members said "No, don't do that".

I suppose they could be sued.

No, just leave a blank space in the middle that has nothing to do with the denomination and is there just to be interesting.

Print something new in it for each member; issue half of them in odd years and half in even. Hold contests.

My workplace has made health insurance a competitive point: zero employee premium, zero copays except for an ambulance call which does not result in an admission, zero Rx costs. Full family coverage.

The dental coverage was screwed up for the first 4 months of the year. An assumption was made that all dental plans were basically the same in terms of payments to dentists. This turned out not to be the case.

Everyone should have this, but until we do, it will be a reasonable negotiating point. Why should non-health-care employers be in the healthcare business?